Race has been one of, if not 

the defining faultline at the 
University of Michigan. In 
the last five years, a slew of 
fatal police shootings of Black 
Americans 
coincided 
with 

a spike in anti-Black attacks 
at the University and in Ann 
Arbor. 
Protests 
engulfed 

campus 
following 
nearly 

every incident, and students 
organized movements spanning 
from #BBUM to Ann Arbor to 
Ferguson, Mo. to #StopSpencer.

Leading from behind each 

of these moments has been 
postdoctoral 
fellow 
Austin 

McCoy. 
McCoy 
arrived 
on 

campus in 2009 as a History 
Ph.D. student, and nearly a 
decade later, has become a 
hybrid 
adviser-activist 
to 

hundreds of student organizers. 
After completing a dissertation 
on the history of progressive 
organizing, he’s leaving Ann 
Arbor for Alabama, where he’ll 

be taking up a new post as a 
history professor at Auburn 
University. The Daily sat down 
with McCoy to reflect on his 
time on campus, and what’s up 
next.

TMD: So nine years later, 

how does it feel to be leaving?

McCoy: It feels weird … Ann 

Arbor is the second longest 
place I’ve lived. But it also feels 
like it’s the right time to go do 
something different.

TMD: You chose Auburn 

University, which is definitely 
warmer! But it’s also in the 
South, which is a new kind of 
forum for your work.

McCoy: I had a choice 

between there and a school 
in the Northeast and I chose 
Auburn. Part of it is I really 
like the department, I like the 
people, and I thought I would 
be able to have a big impact 
on students there — and even 
in politics possibly within the 
state. It’s the South. Auburn 
isn’t going to be like Ann Arbor; 
it’ll be less liberal and the 

Campus Mind Works, a wellness 

group that promotes mental health 
education and provides support 
groups through the University 
of Michigan Depression Center, 
spoke Tuesday night on the 
potentially harmful effects of a 
world increasingly dependent on 
technology.

This seminar, held in partnership 

with the College of Engineering 
and the Newnan LSA Academic 
Advising Center, was run by clinical 
staff affiliated with the University’s 
Department of Psychiatry. They 
provided 
information 
about 

practicing self-care in a digital 
world while allowing students to 
connect with others who may have 
shared similar experiences.

This seminar’s topic revolved 

around the harmful side effects 
of technology and not only how 
to combat these effects but how 
to limit and moderate the use of 

The 
National 
Center 
for 

Institutional Diversity hosted a 
discussion titled “Campus Inclusion 
and Free Expression: A Conversation 
with Higher Education Leaders” 
Tuesday night at the Graduate hotel 
in Ann Arbor. Tabbye Chavous, 
University of Michigan professor and 
director of the National Center for 
Institutional Diversity, moderated 
a four-person panel of university 
administrators 
as 
they 
debated 

the challenge of making campuses 
welcoming 
and 
inclusive 
while 

upholding the right to free speech.

About 50 audience members, 

including administrators and faculty 
from universities across the country, 
attended the event, which was the 
third in a series of dialogues that have 
taken place at various universities 
over the past academic year. 

After 
panelists 
introduced 

themselves, 
Chavous 
began 
by 

asking them to comment on the clash 
between free speech and inclusion, 
and to consider how the two ideas are 
often pitted against one another on 
college campuses.

Lorelle 
Espinosa, 
American 

Council of Education’s assistant vice 
president of the Center for Policy 
Research and Strategy, brought up 

a 2018 Gallup-Knight Foundation 
report, which found that students 
value inclusion over free speech.

John 
DeGioia, 
president 
of 

Georgetown 
University, 
also 

responded, suggesting the study 
didn’t capture the nuance of the 
issue. Though the results made 
headlines, the margin was small — 
only 53 percent of students chose 
diversity and inclusion over free 
speech — and, according to DeGioia, 

placing inclusion and free speech 
in direct competition is inherently 
problematic. 
DeGioia 
said 
that 

university administrators need to 
understand the complexity of free 
speech.

“We’re in a new moment in higher 

education where we’ve achieved a 
level of diversity across our campuses 
that requires a different kind of 
leadership, a different kind of 
engagement that respects the 

sheer newness of what we’re now 
wrestling with,” DeGioia said.

Chavous then invited the panel 

to think of how the country’s 
political climate has exacerbated 
issues 
of 
self-expression 
in 

academia. She cited a recent 
study from the Anti-Defamation 
League reporting a spike in 
white supremacist propaganda 
on college campuses, and asked 

On Tuesday, the University 

of 
Michigan 
released 
its 

Sustainability Progress Report, 
which provides data on the 
University’s progress toward 
its 
campus 
sustainability 

goals for 2025. The report 
includes updates within the 
categories of climate action, 
waste 
prevention, 
healthy 

environments and community 
engagement.

In the area of climate action, 

the University has reduced 
greenhouse gas emissions by 
5 percent and hopes to cut 
emissions by 25 percent by 
2025. The University has also 
cut vehicle carbon output by 
15 percent, halfway toward its 
goal of 30 percent by 2025.

In 
terms 
of 
waste 

prevention, 
the 
University 

aims to decrease the amount of 

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at University 
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CAMPUS LIFE

Prominent campus leader talks activism, 
his investment in student organizing 

RIYAH BASHA
Daily News Editor

Students expressed concerns they are unaware of exactly where tuition is being spent 

For 
LSA 
senior 
Madeleine 

Conrad, an out-of-state student 
from California, the differences 
in enrollment numbers between 
in-state and out-of-state students 
at the University of Michigan 
reflect the diverse perspectives 

brought by out-of-state students. 
Yet Conrad feels conflicted when 
she considers the role she feels 
the University should play in 
supporting in-state students.

“When you’re talking about 

diversity 
and 
perspective, 

obviously being in-state versus 
out-of-state is part of that,” 
Conrad said. “When you bring 
people from out-of-state, you bring 

people from, hopefully, different 
socioeconomic statuses, different 
communities. I think there is 
something to be said to that, to 
kind of value this perspective, 
(but) when considering the greater 
context this University has and 
should stand there for the people 
of Michigan.”

As a public flagship university, 

the University of Michigan was 

established 
upon 
principles 

representing the state — as well 
as an emphasis on providing 
education for in-state students 
who 
seek 
admission 
to 
the 

University. 

However, 
according 
to 

new 
freshmen 
enrollment 

by 
residencynumbers 
at 
the 

University, only 52% of new 

JORDYN BAKER
Daily Staff Reporter

Data shows 
progress on
goals for a 
greener ‘U’ 

RESEARCH

Sustainability Progress 
Report results say campus 
on track to reach 2025 goal

MAEVE O’BRIEN
Daily Staff Reporter

CAMERON HUNT/Daily

Panelists discuss the right to free speech on college campuses at the Graduate Hotel Tuesday. 

Higher Ed leaders from across country 
talk free speech, inclusion on campus 

Panel of university administrators explores intersection of expression, diversity 

ALICE TRACEY
Daily Staff Reporter

Students of the Year
Take a look at the University’s 
greatest activists, innovators, 

leaders and community 

builders of 2018. 

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Talk links 
self-care to 
wary social 
media use

CAMPUS LIFE

Rates of youth anxiety 
and depression increase 
in correlation with tech

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